Background
Hartmann was born in Søllerød, Denmark, the son of Emil Hartmann, grandson of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, and brother of Bodil de Neergaard. He grew up in a house where there was great interest in music, art, literature, and traveling
Hartmann was born in Søllerød, Denmark, the son of Emil Hartmann, grandson of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, and brother of Bodil de Neergaard. He grew up in a house where there was great interest in music, art, literature, and traveling
As a boy he revealed a talent for drawing, and attended the Academy of Gustav and Sophus Vermehren from 1896 to 1902, under the tutelage of Frants Henningsen. He then studied for three years at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
After completing studies there, he enrolled at Kristian Zahrtmann’s school from 1902 to 1904, where he was exposed to an avant–garde art scene and was taught color and form processing. During his short career, made some study trips abroad in 1902–1909 to Italy, Belgium, Holland and Paris. His painting frequently draw subjects from mythology or the Bible.
The colors he used were muted, similar to paintings by Delacroix, Goya and Rembrandt.
His paintings mix traditional and modern styles, with classical outline and geometric composition holding figures which border abstract art Some of his works feature images from the Skejten Nature Reserve near Fuglsang Manor.
lieutenant is possible that Hartmann met Olaf Rude or other painting peers there, as Rude"s parents had a farm near Fuglsang and he painted some of his most famous images from scenes at Skejten. There have after his death regularly been exhibitions in Denmark, Scandinavia and several times in Italy.
He exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1905 and 1907 at Den Frie Udstilling in 1908 and 1909.
He died 16 January 1910, in Copenhagen, after an unsuccessful appendectomy. Carl Nielsen wrote At the Bier of a Young Artist for his funeral.